| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 310 pages) : illustrations. |
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text file |
| Series |
Studies in pragmatics ; 9
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Studies in pragmatics ; 9.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
""New Approaches to Hedging""; ""Copyright""; ""Table of Contents""; ""List of Contributors ""; ""Acknowledgments ""; ""Announcement ""; ""Introduction ""; ""1. Pragmatic Competence: The Case of Hedging""; ""2. A Contrastive Approach to Vague Nouns""; ""3. Hedges in Context: Form and Function of Sort of and Kind of""; ""4. Mitigating and Being Vague in Interpreter-Mediated Discourse""; ""5. The Diachrony of Rounders and Adaptors: Approximation and Unidirectional Change"" |
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""6. Hyperbolic Approximative Numerals in Cross-Cultural Comparison""""7. Approximative Expressions and their Loose Uses in Chinese""; ""8. Weakening or Strengthening?: A Case of Enantiosemy in Plato’s Gorgias""; ""9. Position and Scope of Epistemic Phrases in Planned and Unplanned American English""; ""10. Pragmatic Functions of Parenthetical I Think""; ""11. Parenthetical Hedged Performatives""; ""12. On the Relationship between Attenuation, Discourse Particles and Position""; ""Subject Index "" |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Hedge (Linguistics) -- Congresses.
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Hedge (Linguistics) |
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Euphemism -- Congresses.
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Euphemism. |
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Pragmatics -- Congresses.
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Pragmatics. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Added Author |
Kaltenböck, Gunther.
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Mihatsch, Wiltrud.
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Schneider, Stefan, 1958-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Kaltenböck, Gunther. New Approaches to Hedging. : BRILL, ©2010 |
| ISBN |
9789004253247 (electronic book) |
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9004253246 (electronic book) |
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9780857242471 (hardback) |
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0857242474 (hardback) |
| Standard No. |
10.1163/9789004253247 |
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